Contains 49 mystery plays forming series from Creation and Fall of Lucifer to Last Judgment and Coronation of Our Lady. Music for Play XLVI, 'The Appearance of Our Lady to Thomas' (associated with York Weavers Guild) copied by a single scribe on ff. 235', 236, 238, and 241-241'. Pieces on ff. 241-241' in choirbook format; others in score format. Copied in York; plays exhibited by incorporated Trades of City of York at various times during 15th and 16th centuries. Belonged to the Corporation of York until 1553. Later owned by Sir Henry Fairfax, Ralph Thoresby, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Heywood Bright, and Bertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913). Acquired by British Museum from Ashburnham in 1897.
GB-Lbl Add. MS 35290
British Library, London, England
manuscript of polyphony: mid or late 15th century
| Archive | British Library, London, England (GB-Lbl) |
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| Shelfmark | Add. MS 35290 |
| Surface | Mixed Paper and Parchment |
| Numbering System | Foliation |
| Format | portrait |
| Measurements | 280 x 203 mm |
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| Contents | Contains 6 compositions, 6 are anonymous. |
General Description
Binding
Original brown leather covers glued onto modern covers of brown leather over boards.
Notation
black mensural with red coloration
Date
Mid or late 15th century (WallYP).
Ruling
red staves
Foliation
New pencil foliation, 1-254, uses '31' twice and omits some blank leaves
Foliation
235v, 236, 238 and 241-241v
Decoration
No initials or decoration.
Surface
i paper + i parchment + i paper + vi parchment + 266 parchment + vi parchment + i paper
Census Catalogue of Music Description
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Mystery plays, with polyphony for one play: 6 motets
Anonymous
i paper + i parchment + i paper + vi parchment + 266 parchment + vi parchment + i paper folios, 280 x 203. New pencil foliation, 1-254, uses "31" twice and omits some blank leaves. Original brown leather covers glued onto modern covers of brown leather over boards. Manuscript contains 49 mystery plays forming series from Creation and Fall of Lucifer to Last Judgment and Coronation of Our Lady. Music for Play XLVI, "The Appearance of Our Lady to Thomas" (associated with York Weavers Guild) copied by a single scribe on ff. 235', 236, 238, and 241-241'. Black mensural notation on red staves, with red coloration. Pieces on ff. 241-241' in choirbook format; others in score format. No initials or decoration.
Mid or late 15th century (WallYP). Copied in York; plays exhibited by incorporated Trades of City of York at various times during 15th and 16th centuries. Belonged to the Corporation of York until 1553. Later owned by Sir Henry Fairfax, Ralph Thoresby, Horace Walpole, Benjamin Heywood Bright, and Bertram, 5th Earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913). Acquired by British Museum from Ashburnham in 1897.
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Burstyn, Shai. 1972. Fifteenth-Century Polyphonic Settings of Verses from the Song of Songs. Columbia University, Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation. Pages: 34-5.
Wall, Carolyn, and Ruth Steiner. 1971. York Pageant XLVI and Its Music. Speculum, 46: 689-712.
Stevens, John E. 1961. Music & Poetry in the Early Tudor Court. Cambridge. Pages: 453-457.
Westrup, Jack A (editor). 1954-. New Oxford History of Music. London, New York, and Toronto. Pages: III, 198.
Hughes, Dom Anselm. 1953. Catalogue of the Musical Manuscripts at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Cambridge. Pages: I, 243.
Smith, Lucy Toulmin (editor). 1885. York Plays: The Plays Performed by the Crafts or Mysteries of York ... in the 14th, 15th, and 16th Centuries. Oxford. Pages: 517-28, frontispiece, Plates II-III.
Madden, F. 1843-. Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. Pages: [1894-9],236-8.
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NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Binding Note; Notation Note; Date Note; Ruling Note; Foliation Note; Foliation Note; Decoration Note; Surface Note
Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550
Monday, 23 January, 2017
NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description